The translation of Good Offices (2011) is sublime. Rosero affirms unashamedly that literature can and should change social reality… Stranger to the Moon is a brave, powerful, and distinctive novel by a writer who arguably holds the strongest claim to the title of Colombia’s greatest living author.
Insects and reptiles are trained as agents and spies against the naked ones, and only the most fortunate humans manage to reach old age by taking up strategic spots near the kitchens and grabbing for the fiercely contested food. Each subsequent section of the book adds further layers to the ritualistic and bizarre social order inhabited by its characters. A parable of pointed social criticism, with naked humans imprisoned in a house in order to serve the needs of “the vicious clothed ones,” the novel describes what ensues when a single “naked one” privately rebels, risking his own death and that of his fellow prisoners. His magnificent novel Stranger to the Moon portrays a world that seems to exist outside time and place but taps into the dark myths and collective subconscious of his country, with its harrowing inequality and violence. The renowned Colombian writer Evelio Rosero has never been one to shy away from the darker aspects of his nation’s history and society. Stranger to the Moon is a brave, powerful, and distinctive novel by a writer who arguably holds the strongest claim to the title of Colombia’s greatest living author.A fantastical novel about power and subservience by the great Evelio Rosero, winner of Colombia’s National Literature Prize
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